Fuso into Queen­stown

FUSO NEW ZEALAND HAS EX­PANDED ITS ser­vice net­work to Queen­stown, with the ap­point­ment of Torque Au­to­mo­tive as the re­sort town’s rst FUSO parts and ser­vice deal­er­ship.

Fuso NZ MD Kur­tis An­drews says that the com­pany “has been look­ing to ex­pand its ser­vice net­work in ar­eas that have been his­tor­i­cally un­der-served, and par­tic­u­larly ones that are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing strong growth, such as Queen­stown.

“We’re pleased that we can now bet­ter ser­vice the needs of cus­tomers in the lower cen­tral South Is­land, which is see­ing in­creas­ing com­mer­cial trac as a re­sult of the lo­cal pop­u­la­tion growth.”

Torque Au­to­mo­tive has been in op­er­a­tion for seven years and owner Kevin Mal­lon says: “We’ve fo­cused on build­ing strong re­la­tion­ships with our cus­tomers; we know the lo­cal land­scape and op­er­a­tors ap­pre­ci­ate good ser­vice with a smile.

“We’re now look­ing for­ward to tak­ing our oer­ing to the next level by join­ing with FUSO.”

e com­pany holds the ser­vice con­tract for Swis­s­port’s ground sup­port equip­ment at Queen­stown Air­port and has ex­per­tise in work­ing with a wide va­ri­ety of machin­ery and equip­ment.

An­drews says that Mal­lon’s fo­cus on de­liv­er­ing bet­ter ser­vice for his cus­tomers aligns with Fuso NZ’s own ethos: “We want to be sure that when new deal­er­ships come on board, they will carry the ag for ex­cel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice – the level of ser­vice that won us an award this year from Daim­ler Trucks Asia.

“We have high stan­dards and Torque Au­to­mo­tive has ticked ev­ery box.”

Mal­lon says that “hav­ing ac­cess to top-level train­ing is great for the team and ob­vi­ously al­lows us to min­imise time o the road for our cus­tomers, which is what we’re here for.”